For the first time, Haines High School offered a Certified Nurses Aide course to students. Beginning in March, high school students Malia Jorgenson-Geise, Grace Long Godinez, and MacKenzy Dryden participated in a semester-long CNA course in partnership with the University of Alaska Southeast. The program includes online classroom instruction, lab training, and skills practice, which was completed with help from […]
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Haines leaders share lessons after fatal Wrangell slide
Last week, Sylvia Heinz picked up her phone in Juneau and read the news of a fatal landslide in Wrangell. “I put my phone down. I couldn’t read it. I couldn’t think about it. I felt sick to my stomach,” Heinz said. “My second thought was, ‘I wish I was there because now I have […]
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Constantine president lays out timeline for Palmer Project work
Constantine Mining, the company exploring a mineral prospect 40 miles north of Haines, is preparing to release a new operation plan at the beginning of next year, part of a regular permit renewal with the state Department of Natural Resources. The plan is part of transition from mapping the deposit into a new phase of […]
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Assembly Briefs: November 28 regular meeting
New police car for $85,000 The assembly approved a request from the borough manager to pay $85,000 for a new 2024 Chevy Tahoe. The cost includes $51,880 for the actual price, to be purchased from Swickard Auto Group in Anchorage, plus modifications like radar, lights and radio for an additional $25,000. Most of the funding, […]
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Harbormaster recommends Letnikof Dock closure
The Haines harbormaster is recommending the borough close down the Letnikof Dock due to damage to the steel floats until it can be replaced. Shawn Bell told members of the Ports and Harbors Advisory Committee the news at a meeting on Nov. 16. The dock, which went into use in 1979, is popular with subsistence […]
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Planning commission briefs
Brown, Poinsette elected chair, vice chair The newly elected members of the Haines planning commission made their debut Thursday night at the committee’s first regular meeting to elect a chair and vice chair. The seven members were elected by residents during the recent October local election — a first for the borough. Previous commissioners were […]
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Assembly OKs 2-month tax deadline delay
Those in Haines still owing property taxes that were due Nov. 1 now have two more months to make their payments. The retroactive extension was granted by the Haines Borough Assembly in a unanimous decision during a meeting Tuesday night. The new official due date is Dec. 31. The assembly’s action followed residents’ requests for the borough […]
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Few details on $3.5 million of downtown property sales
A month after they were listed for sale, there are still no answers to why $3.5 million in property — most of it on Main Street — went up for sale, and the properties are still listed for sale. Chris Thorgesen, the owner of the properties, declined to comment on why he is selling the […]
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Southeast Alaska State Fair director Jessica Edwards spent three days at the International Association of Amusement Park Attractions trade show in Florida. She visited the 42-acre event with husband Andy Hedden, daughter Sophia Hedden, and the president of the fair board Eric Forster. The fair hopes to add a new ride by its 50th anniversary in 2018. After three days […]
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Ad hoc committee to look into property tax assessment changes following uproar
The Haines Borough Assembly is seeking five community members to join a new ad hoc committee to look at changes to the borough’s property tax assessment process. The new committee comes after a summer of some intense public criticism following a dramatic rise in some property assessments and resulting tax bills. Assembly members in favor of the […]